«Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes, sentence 46

Children go into care because parents can't cope or can't keep them safe, not because the child isn't wanted.

Who acts: Children, parents · What happens: go, not cope, not keep, not want · To what, where: care, children, child

This is a sentence of the lesson ««Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Children, parents), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 go	nsubj
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	4 care	case
4	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 go	obl
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 cope	mark
6	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cope	nsubj
7	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 cope	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 cope	advmod
9	cope	cope	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 go	advcl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 keep	cc
11	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 keep	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 keep	advmod
13	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 cope	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 keep	obj
15	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 keep	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 wanted	punct
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 wanted	advmod
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	23 wanted	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 child	det
20	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 wanted	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 wanted	aux:pass
22	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 wanted	advmod
23	wanted	want	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 cope	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 go	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	present	Children		care		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into care=Initial_Location
2	not cope	can	parents				vn cope-83-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not keep	can	parents not said here	children = child		safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	not want	present · passive		the child			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:everyday:524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes.lesson:46.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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